Supporting EDDI, an innovative drought prediction tool
The Evaporative Demand Drought Index, or EDDI, transitioned from NOAA’s Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) into operational use at the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) in FY25. This new tool for drought prediction received support from JTTI in its FY22 internal funding competition. EDDI was initially an external research project from our office’s FY16 funding competition, intended…